Questions tagged [external-command]
Questions about calling external (shell) commands from within Vi or Vim.
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Filter specific lines matching a pattern through external command
I'm trying to filter specific lines through external command. I think knowing how to do this would be extremely beneficial to me, so I'm trying to find a way to do this. As an example, I wanted to ...
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How can I use a range as input for an external command without deleting it?
I'm executing an external command that takes as input a range of lines within my file.
:'<,'>!copy_stuff
Running this runs copy_stuff correctly with the currently selected visual range (and it ...
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How do I prevent Vim from showing my terminal when executing an external command?
I'm running a long, blocking command using execute in Vim as part of a script. Vim shows the underlying terminal while executing the command, which is pretty distracting.
function! DoSomething(query)
...
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job_start() command only works with seemingly random job options
I am getting some unexpected behavior when trying to run the zip shell command using Vim's job_start().
As an example, suppose I have two images (im1.png and im2.jpg) in the directory /home/username/...
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Is there a way to change the message “press ENTER or type command to continue” to something else?
I would like to change it to make something like a separator between !python %
Change this(my computer is in spanish):
To something like:
Hello World
---------------
Hello World
---------------
...
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How can I create a command to remove non-consecutive duplicate lines?
I'm trying to remove (non-consecutive) duplicate lines in a file I have loaded in vim (without sorting them). In several places on the web I've found the nugget awk '!x[$0]++' as a pipe command that ...
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execute command after it print junk text?
I am using bspwm so I added this line to my .vimrc:
au BufWritePost $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/sxhkd/sxhkdrc silent exec "!pkill -USR1 -x sxhkd && sxhkd &
So that when I edit sxhkdrc, it ...
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Showing external command output only if not empty
Is it possible to silently run an external command, but show the output on the prompt only if there was any?
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“Hard-include” in vim script
I want to:
let s:asciiart = ["", "", s:hardinclude(system("command params")), "", ""]
where command returns one string with:
"art-line-1", "art-line-2", "art-line-3"
so I end up with:
s:asciiart =...
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Adjust terminal size using a system call from within Vim
All,
I have a little function I'm trying to fix. I'd like to change my terminal Vim window size using the ASCII escape sequence \e[8;40;130t so that my writing window size stays the same when I use a ...
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separate stdout and stderr of system() command
I can catch the output of running a system command via system() or systemlist(), but that actually gives me the result of stdout and stderr combined.
As I am only interested in stdout (and may use ...
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How to open internal MediaWiki links with their full URL from within Vim?
I have a file in Mediawiki format, containing internal links (in a Mediawiki installation)
* [[Topic A]]
* [[Topic B]]
* [[Vim]]
(The asterisks are how MediaWiki lists are formatted, they are not ...
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don't capture stderr for git grep as grepprg
I'm trying to use git grep as my grepprg, but I keep getting spurious files such as ~/fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git. Is there a way to configure vim to correctly ...
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How can I keep the cursor position when piping the buffer through an external command?
I sometimes make shortcuts for myself, which run some external command on the current buffer, such as
nnoremap <C-f> :%!clang-format -style=file<C-m>
which formats the buffer with clang'...
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I want to save my typescript file, and immediately run tsc myfile.ts from inside vim. What is the best way to accomplish this?
I am building a daemon, and nodemon currently monitors a file called server.js, which is compiled from the file I am working on, server.ts
In order to compile server.ts, after saving with :w, I need ...
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Use external commands within venv virtual environment
Same question as Use Vim with virtualenv, except for these differences:
I'm using bash, not zsh
using venv, not virtualenv or virtualenvwrapper
I have a keybinding to run the current buffer as a ...
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running external command on contents of register
I know I can use ranges/marks with the ! command like so:
%! column -t
etc. Is there any way to pass a register to the external command instead of the current buffer? I imagine it would look ...
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Neovim 0.17.5: bash command top failed tty get
please be gentle, I am trying to learn neovim, coming from vim
the command :!top executed inside neovim returns
top: failed tty get
shell returned 1
After googling, only search results from fzf ...
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How to replace entire buffer with the contents of a variable?
I am trying to replace the entire buffer with the output from an external command. Similar to :% !myprog, but only if the command succeeds:
let output = system('myprog')
if v:shell_error == 0
" ...
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How to get the current cmd line of (neo)vim?
If I start with nvim -u NONE , I want to get "-u NONE".
I tried to get pid using bash and python, but it seems to return the pid of the process that is created (either python or bash).
So how ...
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How to get the names of all open buffers?
I can use % to get the name of the focused window for commands. How can I get a space-separated list of all buffers for use in a command?
For example, I would like to call
:!cat [all]
where [all] ...
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Prevent “Press ENTER or type command to continue” prompt after external command executes
I am using :grep to search for occurences of a string within a set of files:
:grep rainbow *.txt
This result is then shown in the terminal:
doc1.txt:2:saw a rainbow today
doc2.txt:17:it was not a ...
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Update external file based on VIM mode
Currently I have my vim set up to update the statuslline based on what mode the editor is in. Like if I'm in insert mode then the statusline turns red. Magenta in replace mode. Green in command ...
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Changing PYTHONPATH from inside VIM
Today I was writing code in VIM and wanted to change the PYTHONPATH and so I ran:
:!echo $PYTHONPATH;export PYTHONPATH="/home/oli/git/published_libraries/computer_communication_framework";echo $...
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Why does vim call powershell surrounded by two single quotes?
I'm attempting to use powershell from gvim, and when I do...I set:
:set shellcmdflag=-NoProfile\ -NoLogo\ -ExecutionPolicy\ RemoteSigned\ -windowStyle\ Normal\ -Command
:set shell='C:\\windows\\...
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How to pass a string as stdin to a job?
I have a shell command which reads from stdin, processes the input, and writes to stdout. To call it synchronously from vim I can do system('mycommand', data) where data is some string my vimscript ...
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How to create a function to `hash` buffer content
I want to create a function that I can call to replace a specific string pattern with md5sum of current buffer.
I have no experience writing VimL before and can't figure out the way to do it.
This ...
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Can I pipe vim spelling suggestions to an external program?
I know I can write a buffer to an external program with :w !<command>, but is there a way to pipe the contents of the spelling correction list I get with z= into an external program (i.e. dmenu)...
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Write buffer to command and append stdout back to same buffer
I've opened an empty buffer with just vim.
I have a shell script in the same directory that I can pipe SQL to. That script will print the result of the execution to stdout.
In my empty buffer, I ...
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get exit status from system() call
Calling the function system("<command>") or systemlist("<command>") retrieves the stdout output from a shell call to <command>. How can I retrieve the exit status of that command?
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Pass character-wise visual selection to an external command
I want to VISUAL select a piece of text character-wise and pass it to an external command.
For example I want to select only the URL from the the text below
abcde www.google.com abcde
and open it ...
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How to execute commands in vim, piping the output back into the editor in real time?
So, to begin, this is similar to Pipe shell command into buffer in real-time.
The difference is that the top answer there pipes the output to a new buffer. How do I pipe the output to the editor ...
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How do I control an external program from vim? The final end is to listen to audio and make a transcript in sync
So it seems that vim is great for so many things. And I love it. And yet, it is the configuration that sometimes is a limitation for those of us who don't get a tight grasp on how to tinker into it. I ...
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How does (neo)vim set $PATH for system(['command'])
When I want to call an external program, I have the option of spawning a shell or not.
system('my command') will spawn a shell (executing your .bashrc/etc and all it seems).
system(['my command']) ...
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Why does colon in shell command read the wrong file?
I write ruby test files in vim, and regularly run tests from the file I'm editing by running
:!rspec %:N
or something similar (to execute the test at line N). The problem is that when the first ...
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Retrieving results from variations of system('top') returns errors
Directly on the Ubuntu terminal, I can extract the results from top regarding a specific PID with:
top -p <pid> -n1 | awk '/<pid>/'
Where <pid> should be substituted with a PID ...
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Vim can't search for dot
I'm trying to write a Vim script function to toggle between -> and . but searching for . is seemingly impossible.
I've tried to search using ASCII (decimal and hex) and it doesn't work. It all ...
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Function arguments + shell
I'm trying to write a command for adding a Python import line. The problem is that what's added it import a:name and not the module name.
Here's the code
func! PyImport(name)
w
silent !isort ...
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Shell coloring handling with :read command
How can I deal with the colored outputs of shell commands when inputing them with :read?
As an example, I have a self-defined git log command, and I would like to see it in a split window. That works ...
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How to map a call to a system function using the current filename?
I've been using vim for a little while and I'm doing some LaTeX with it, using Tectonic as the engine.
What I was doing to generate the pdf (without leaving the editor)
:call system("tectonic main....
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How can I pass a text to an external program without changing the current buffer?
I want to do filter through an external program without actually filtering the lines (but to keep them). For example :
%!grep aa > newfile
If I do this, all the lines are deleted and I need to do ...
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opening powershell from inside vim
I want to run powershell from vim and I have achieved it using the following mapping:
map <leader>cd :cd %:p:h<cr>:silent !powershell<cr>
The problem is that I can't do anything ...
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How to make vim shell command wait for keypress?
I have assigned the macro !clear && gcc % && ./a.out to the key 'r'.
So when I press '@r', I expect vim to:
Clear the shell
compile the current C file
run the output
The problem is ...
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error output when using commands proxied via WSL (asyncrun plugin)
I have wsl - ubuntu installed under Windows 10. Some ubuntu's commands are proxied to use in cmd by create .bat files and add them to PATH environment of windows10, pattern like following:
@echo off
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:global, how to use matched pattern in the cmd of :g/pat/cmd?
Give a buffer each line contain a filename. how to use r! cmd on the filename, within a :g command?
eg,
BEFORE PROCESSING:
file1.txt
file2.txt
AFTER PROCESSING (with wc -l):
file1.txt
12 ...
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How to run shell commands on file without saving?
For example, if I want to run tidy on a file
r! tidy %
But I have to save the file beforehand. Is there any way around this?
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How to run zsh aliased command from vim command mode?
I have a bunch of really useful terminal programs which I use often while I am editing or writing. For example, dictionary is a popular one and I have aliased its usage to single character d in .zshrc ...
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How can I import output from linux commands into vim for editing?
Is there a way I can directly import/insert the output of any linux command into vim editor? For example: pwd in currently open vim buffer.
Also
From terminal how can I directly open command output ...
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e or tabe into path resulting from a ! command
Given a bash function, getMyFilePath(), which results in a directory path, /mydir, how can I open a new tab, passing this function to navigate there?
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Shortcut for automatic execution
I've found the following command to execute Python or Matlab or any other language as far as I understand to execute code
nnoremap <buffer> <F9> :exec '!python' shellescape(@%, 1)<cr&...
